How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Penguin Classics)

by Luc Sante (Author), Luc Sante (Author), Jacob Riis (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1998

  $3.43

  First published in 1890, this is the author's study of the slums of New York, where Italians, Jews, Bohemians , Blacks and Chinese struggled against the effects of poverty, alcohol and lack of education. The author's use of photographs to put faces to his stories is recognized as a landmark in photojournalism and as a result of his book, many reforms did take place to assist New York's poor.